All That's Interesting - Future serial killer Ed Gein spent his youth locked

All That's Interesting - Future serial killer Ed Gein spent his youth locked

Future serial killer Ed Gein spent his youth locked away on the family's rural Wisconsin farm with just his brother and his fervently religious mother. She forbade her boys to make any friends and taught them that the outside world was evil and that all women except her were instruments of the devil.⠀⠀⠀

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Soon, Gein's brother was found dead on the family property under mysterious circumstances and he was left all alone with mother. When she died soon after, Gein lost his "one true love" and further secluded himself inside the house, much of which he turned into a shrine to her.⠀⠀⠀

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Meanwhile, corpses started vanishing from local graves and people started disappearing around town. When the evidence finally led police to Gein's house in 1957, they found human skulls impaled on his bedposts, kitchen utensils made of bones, and a trove of household items like gloves and lampshades made out of human skin. They even found a "woman suit" made out of human skin that he'd begun fashioning shortly after his mother died in order to become her and crawl inside her skin.⠀⠀⠀

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Gein's story was so infamously gruesome that it would soon inspire both "Psycho" and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. By 1968, he was judged competent to stand trial; he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but he was found legally insane and was remanded to a psychiatric institution. He died at Mendota Mental Health Institute from respiratory failure resulting from lung cancer, on July 26, 1984, aged 77. He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave.

On the morning of November 16, 1957, Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. A Plainfield resident reported that the hardware store's truck had been driven out from the rear of the building at around 9:30 a.m.

The hardware store saw few customers the entire day; some area residents believed that this was because of deer hunting season. Bernice Worden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00 p.m. to find the store's cash register open and blood stains on the floor.

Frank Worden told investigators that on the evening before his mother's disappearance, Gein had been in the store, and that he was to have returned the next morning for a gallon of antifreeze. A sales slip for a gallon of antifreeze was the last receipt written by Worden on the morning that she disappeared.

On the evening of the same day, Gein was arrested at a West Plainfiel grocery store, and the Waushara County Sheriff's Department searched the Gein farm.

A Waushara County Sheriff's deputy discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed on Gein's property, hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists. The torso was "dressed out like a deer". She had been shot with a .22-caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death.

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